Notes from the MMMUG 6th November 2009

so a special pre-TechEd event with two members of the products groups from Redmond enroute to present in Berlin.

Astrid McClean is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Exchange group Astrid went through a presentation on the management, new administration capabilities and self service features of Exchange Server 2010

RBAC

Who

Role based security group

What

Cmdlet and all it’s parameters

Where

Scope

OU or set of filters

Exclusive Scope

Done make it complex

Use groups and don’t assign to users

Good idea to clone the default policy, just “in case” a a service pack comes along an wipes any changed .. not that it would happen of course ;-)

Role membership is not a right to delegate

Delegation is controlled through RoleGroup ownership.

Ownership does not grant access to the RoleGroup

Astrid also showed is a cmdlet that used –assignmentchain, but I cant for the life of me remember what is was .. will check out and get back 2 ya

Launch of Exchange Server 2010 on Monday (9th November 2010)

Difference between Exchange Server 2010 Standard and Enterprise editions is that with Enterprise can have up to 100 databases.

Yancey Smith who is a Director of Product Management within the OCS Group and gave and overview of OCS 2007 R2. Face Time also pitched up with some freebies

Unified Inbox (Exchange) and Presence (OCS)

Internally @ Microsoft

126k active users

usage for Sept 2009

76m messages sent

129 sessions per user

>700k calls p2p audio

Regulated group chat is a low light

Group chat QFE is all that will be done until Wave 15

Unified Conferencing

23k OCS Web conference users

Usage for Sept 2009

107k meetings – ocs/lcs

124k app shares

33 unique audio organisers

Usage for Sept 2009

62k Audio Conferencing meeting

7.9m minutes

Enterprise Voice

61k users

39 sites enabled

Usage

5m calls/month

33m minutes usage

46% softphone usage

Finding number this low

More User education

check out on tech net

Deployment planning tool

Capacity planning tool

Pre-Call Diagnostic tool

Testing tools

Adoption Kit is available online

Quick Reference Guides

Platform Opportunity

unified and extensible platform

Automated BOTs

Workflow notifications

Check out MSDN for solutions

The Future

Following a break we had start a closed-doors non-disclosure agreement session where we shared with Yancey our views and frustrations with OCS .. This was a very interesting session and you should have been there

oh, By the way, My Name is Paul and the Exchange 2010 DAG was MY idea ;-)